June 17 - August 5, 2012

Orchestral performance forms the heart of the Brevard Music Center. Students who play orchestral instruments or saxophone may enroll in the Orchestral Studies program.

All students in the Orchestra Studies program:

• rehearse daily and perform extensively in various ensembles
• receive weekly private lessons
• have opportunity for formal chamber music study
• may perform in solo and chamber concerts
• may participate in masterclasses
• may compete in the Jan and Beattie Wood Concerto Competition

Students in the College division work side by side with the artist faculty in the Brevard Music Center Orchestra, the Music Center's flagship ensemble. The orchestra performs important repertoire under its principal conductor, Keith Lockhart, and distinguished visiting conductors. Each summer world-renowned soloists appear with the BMC Orchestra.

College division students also perform in the Brevard Sinfonia, an all-student orchestra that likewise works under the principal conductor and guests, and the Brevard Festival Orchestra that performs for opera productions.

In a single week, string students play in a single orchestra. The schedule for wind students varies according to repertoire.

Woodwind, brass, and percussion players may participate in large, "conducted" chamber ensembles as well as in standard smaller groups, e.g., brass and woodwind quintets, percussion ensemble. BMC's all-student contemporary ensemble, itch, presents world-premiere readings of Brevard's composition students.

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LISZT: Les preludes
Brevard Music Center Orchestra
Matthias Bamert, conductor

ELGAR: Nimrod from "Enigma" Variations
Brevard Music Center Orchestra
JoAnn Falletta, conductor

BEETHOVEN: Finale from Symphony No. 7
Brevard Music Center Orchestra
Matthias Bamert, conductor